Criminals will be made to clean up streets and green spaces to ensure justice is 'seen to be done'.
Writing in today's Daily Mail, Priti Patel promises to make 'yobs pay back to the communities they've blighted'.
The scheme is part of Boris Johnson's Beating Crime Plan under which more burglars will be tagged on release from jail.
The plan says GPS monitoring of offenders will be extended to cover half the country's police forces.
Tracking the movements of freed burglars will help 'deter and detect further acquisitive crimes'.
Unveiling the plan today, the Prime Minister will announce a trial of alcohol monitoring tags, which check whether those guilty of drink-fuelled crime stay off booze.
Officers will also be given more powers to seize knives under a relaxation of restrictions on their stop and search powers.
Writing in today's Daily Mail, Priti Patel (pictured) promises to make 'yobs pay back to the communities they've blighted'
Miss Patel says: 'The public want to see justice done and criminals pay the price for their crimes. They want to see yobs pay back to the communities they've blighted by their thoughtless actions.
'That's why we are relaunching unpaid work so it is more visible, to ensure offenders are publicly making reparations for their crimes by undertaking work that is valuable to their local areas, such as cleaning the streets, estates, alleyways and open spaces of litter and other visible signs of disorder in local neighbourhoods.'
Mr Johnson's plan will also ensure that every neighbourhood in England and Wales has a named police officer that residents can contact.
Critics said the plan was a mere 'gimmick' that would do nothing to make the streets safer. Labour pointed out that the Tories cut the number of police by more than 20,000 after taking office in 2010.
The Police Federation will today deliver a letter to Downing Street setting out the anger of the rank-and-file at a pay freeze.
Mr Johnson's document also pledges:
Publication of league tables for 101 and 999 call answering times; £45million to support young people in crime hotspots; More money for targeted patrols, increased street lighting and CCTV; A crackdown on drugs, including more testing of suspects after arrest; A new 'victims law' to codify their rights.As part of the plan, Mr Johnson wants to make community service more visible by getting offenders to clean up public places rather than working inside.
Many work in charity shops or in warehouses sorting clothes from charity collection bins. A number will be employed clearing waterways and canal paths as well as sprucing up woods and beaches. The offenders will wear hi-vis jackets.
The Government will trial the use of monitoring tags that detect alcohol in the sweat of offenders guilty of drink-fuelled crime. The test, which will take place on prison leavers in Wales, is to address the fact that alcohol is a significant driver of crime, playing a part in 39 per cent of all violent offences.
As part of the plan, Mr Johnson wants to make community service more visible by getting offenders to clean up public places rather than working inside (stock image)
On release offenders may be required to wear a tag and either not drink at all or not consume more than a certain amount.
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